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Behave like an absolute lunatic and said, "Now I'm not going to trade with any country, and if we want to be really rich, no more trading with any country we have a deficit with." Talk about that, Donald Trump called Barack Reved as personal stenographer, propaganda stove red axios today, surprise, surprise. Trump both said they really want to make a deal, and also I really want to annihilate them. Trump threatens absolute annihilation of Iran. Talk about that. Prime Minister Karni gave a speech before the European Union Parliament, the first time a foreign leader ever gave a speech like that there, they're talking about a associate member status for Canada and the EU, bringing them closer together, and F-16 crashed in Michigan. Seems like an awful lot of planes are like crashing in helicopters and patchies and black hawks are like randomly crashing, and like refineries are shutting down, there's like power outages. I'm not sure what's going on here, but don't really trust what the Trump regime is telling us about all these various incidents. Of course, Congress, they're now in recess, Maga Mike, lasted about one day where there were hearings, and Treasury Secretary Besant and Cash Patel were cross-examined, and I think that showed us all why we need accountability, why we need oversight, right? Because even though the Maga Republicans control both the House and the Senate, and they basically rig the rules so you can only get like a few minutes to question these idiots, they look so awful during their short period of time, and I mean so awful. I mean, you had Cash Patel talking about bestiality and why he allows people who were found responsible for bestiality to be in the FBI, and he said, no, I'm referring to the victims of bestiality, and then even the Maga Republican Senators, Senator Kennedy was like, are you talking about dogs? What are you talking about there, Cash? And so, I guess we'll talk about that. Russia war in Ukraine continues to escalate. We've been covering what's happening in Odessa and Kiev and cities throughout Ukraine. Similarly, we've been talking about Zelensky's response. We're seeing still refineries throughout Russia are being hit. Things are escalating there. Don't worry, Trump promised he was going to end that war. Like two years ago, he said he would end it in 24 hours. It'd be so easy. He has the best words, he said. So, he would use some words with Putin and some words with Zelensky, and it would be resolved. But now he blames Zelensky for the rising price of diesel. He says it has nothing to do with Iran. It's all about Zelensky. He's fouching. It's Zelensky. Dr. Fauci. It's not a surprise. He was doing that before anyway. He was fouching Zelensky before he was fouching Fauci. And then Donald Trump gave that deranged speech in North Carolina where he was dancing. We once did a video early on in the Midas Touch Network. We called them like, Trump dancing on graves, the grave dancer, and he's kind of doing that right now. As the American people are suffering, he's like, I delivered all of my promises. We're in a golden age. Everybody's rich. Everyone's amazing. And then when he returned to Washington, D.C., a board, Qatar Air Force one with Natalie Harp, he could be seen holding a placard about destroying the Kennedy Center is what he was reading. A massive, gigantic placard that says, destroy Kennedy Center. That I guess he and his henchmen, Bill Pulti, were looking at together in this as yesterday, a legal observer who was monitoring what was taking place at the Kennedy Center said that Trump was sending forklifts to not just put fencing, but to start indiscriminately crashing into the pillars of the Kennedy Center, like, like just think about the judges like, Trump, you can't name it that. Can I inscript my name? Can I engrave it? No. Or then I'm going to break it. I'm going to break it. I'm going to send to forklift and I'm going to break it. We've got a lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast, Brett and Jordy. That's where we are right now. That's where we are right now, as we head to the end of this episode, where we are. You think we got a lot to talk about from my God, what a list. Good to see you, Ben. Good to see you, Jordy. Good to see you, Midas. I can't even process that list. If you told me, if I said, if we made this prediction on the Midas Touch podcast, if we said, "Guys, it's really important that you vote this election because if you don't, they're going to bulldoze the east way of the White House. They're going to destroy the reflecting pool. They're going to try to demolish the Kennedy Center. They'll probably host a UFC fight on the lawn. We're going to start a catastrophic war in the Middle East, measles, going to rage back. We're going to start a trade war with Canada. Oh, and by the way, the FBI is also going to start making exceptions for hiring people who engage in bestiality. People would have been like, this is the most conspiratorial podcast I've ever heard of. This is Blu-Anon, Crazy Bullshit. What the hell are you talking about? Somehow I didn't even scratch the surface of all the things that have actually happened under this Trump regime, really, really, truly sick stuff, but we're going to get through it all. Jordy, how are you doing? Didn't even scratch the surface there, Brett. That's right. You left out the skyrocketing gas prices, ice just murdering people on the streets here. Left out quite a bit. I mean, we could go on and on, but to your point, if we had said this before, you know, vocally, and been like, hey, this is what is going to happen. Although I will say that we did probably aptly war and like it's going to get worse and it continues to, but people would have been like, ah, those might as, those might as brothers man, Blu-Anon. That's right, the beast reality thing, that one's, I couldn't recall that. I didn't expect that one. Correct. Correct. I'm excited to get into today's show. Benji, Brett. It's great to see you. It might as mighty. It is wonderful to be here. A quick thing I'm going to say here is when Donald Trump's talking about, you know, saying, we're in the Golden Age. Right now, everyone, we are all in the Golden Age. It gives me like, like, uh, Naga, Michael Scott from the office vibes when he's like, I declared bankruptcy, you got Trump out of the, I declared the Golden Age. You can't just say it, buddy. You can't just say it. It blows my mind. How much, you know, corporate media legacy media just led to Trump's skate on a lot of this, but not us here, not the mightest, mighty, not this pro democracy community. We're going to call it out every step of the way with that, Benji, where we start off today, big bro. You know, it certainly kills satire. It certainly kills parody because what we're seeing is beyond even what I think they envisioned in idiocracy and, uh, it's right here. And, you know, the rest of the world is looking at this and they're like, what the hell is happening here? They're actually like WTF and, you know, we here are looking at this too. And we're like, we're doing everything that we can hear in the mightest touch network. The people here who we're fighting with, the mightest mighty, you all are doing everything that you can. The people have been resilient here. But here we are. The Trump regime. They're trying everything. They tried to rig the mail. Just think about the trying to have the U.S. Postal Service change the way they deliver only election ballots. No other mail. You would create a special Trump barcode and the state election process would have to correspond with Trump's election barcode, so there would be a Trump portal. And the names would have to match Trump's portal to the state election roles. That's why the Trump regime wanted to seize all of the election roles from all the states because they wanted to remove the names of people they didn't like and they were going to kind of create their own, in my opinion, like a fake list, because this is what my opinion was and they were going to try to do. And then they wanted to like create this. People who created a fake Epstein files list would have created a fake voter list. That's one of my opinions. That's what my opinion was. And people who are dead before Epstein was even alive would have done that. That's giving you my opinion protected by the first amendment about where I thought that this could be headed. But you feel free to have different opinions than me. But then even the Supreme Court and that seven to two decision block Trump from that, which is, hey, you can't make the Postal Service a way to stop people from voting. Just think about that's an issue that we just confronted here in the United States. He's posting deranged memes like only Trump and it's a photo of our house, the people's house, the White House, and it says only Trump. And this kind of sums up, I think all of his failed, flawed, catastrophic, everything. Is a deranged lunatic sexual predator awful human? Being he's a felon, he's a bankrupt or not a builder, a deal breaker, just truly putrid in all respects. Only Trump, it's never about public service, it was never about the people, it was never about government functioning, it was all about grifting, stealing, climbing, it was all about only about Trump, only Trump. It's the person who's really made money, lots of it during this horrible time period. Only Trump is the person really going through the golden age, perhaps some oligarchs who go in and out, but even they'll be targeted by him eventually, whether they're in today or out tomorrow. But only Trump has been able to have better life while the American people have absolutely suffered. And so Trump goes to North Carolina, he's given a speech at like the local airport over there. By the way, North Carolina place where Donald Trump rejected FEMA aid over and over again, rejected the appeal for FEMA aid, then kind of gave it in drip by drip by drip. Biden gave 100% matching FEMA aid. Donald Trump refused to do the same match and he rejected the request by the governor. I mean, again, how utterly sick is that to do? I mean, Melania was in North Carolina the day before and she spoke to the children about how she wants to give them all AI, that's what she wanted to talk to them. And she's like, everybody, there's an ash, ash county, she's like, everybody in his soul resilient. You're so resilient. It's like, yeah, well, your family and your regime wouldn't give these people the aid that they needed and he kept in denying it and you gutted FEMA, you crazy people like, what are you doing? What the hell is he even going to anyway? So Donald Trump is in North Carolina and his message to everybody heading into the home stretch for midterms is, I've delivered every single promise. He goes, I delivered every promise I made and far more. I didn't just deliver, I did far more, he said here, play this clip. And I've delivered on every single promise I made and far more than the promise. Okay, then he says that skyrocketing gas prices are very inexpensive price to pay for the Great War. It's been, it should be more money, he said. We're lucky that it's so high because everything's so amazing. So we deserve this, he says here, play this clip. I have to say, you have a little higher, you have a higher, it's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that it's a little more. It's even if it was, frankly, even if it was a lot more. But that's going to come tumbling down. That's going to be like a rocket ship in reverse. It's going to come tumbling down. It'll be like a rocket ship. It should be more expensive. That's Trump's message. It should be more expensive everybody, while you and everybody can't afford their gas. Trump says, yeah, it should be more expensive. Just a little more. But then it'll come tumbling down just magically. Like a miracle, perhaps, it will all disappear. I don't know, maybe inject it in your veins, right? Maybe put some horse tranquilizers. Maybe replace gas with horse tranquilizers. Maybe that's where we go. Maybe we should just not trade with anybody. You know how we can get really rich? If you just do zero trading anymore. And that's one of the things that Donald Trump said. I'll talk about that in a little bit as well. That his solution is we cut off trade with everybody. We'll get to there in a moment. Trump, Bon Iran, Trump says, the Democrats gave us the dark age of America. We turned it into the golden age. He says, this is the golden age. Watch for yourself when he says that this is the golden age. We'll play it. We're going to win, Michael. So the Democrats gave us the dark age of America. And we turned it into the golden age. We're right now in the golden age of America. And that war, that war is going to end very soon. Watch, you just watch. You just watch. You just watch everybody. Then Trump on Iran. He said, they called the Iranians everybody. They called again. They want to make a deal, but they're not ready yet. That's the issue is they're not ready. He says, let's play it. And they want to make a deal so badly they call we want to make a deal. We want to make it and they're not ready yet. I don't think, but we could have a deal any time we want. And I've delivered on every single. No, that's it. We could do a dealing. Amy went, what about what about Venezuela? You told us that you invaded Venezuela because that was going to make our oil prices go down and that we've got access to 65 billion barrels of oil, apparently, in Venezuela, but it's going into our reserves. So where, where, I'm, this is what his claim is. You've all seen my videos and the podcast where I debunk this and I explain to you how all of the oil in Venezuela, it's hypothetical, the 65 billion number, it's potential, it's viscous, dense, sour, doesn't go into our reserves, billions of dollars of investment that may take five, 10, 15 years before you could ever refine it. Lots of businesses don't want to work with the Delci regime over there because it's part of the Maduro regime. Also, it's unlawful what Trump is doing. So lots of businesses for purposes of their shareholders are very cautious about what they're going to be doing here. But this is what Trump says about Venezuela, let's play it. Don't forget, they never want to talk. The fake news about Venezuela. We took out Venezuela in 48 minutes and now we have all our big oil companies going there and we're working along with the government of Venezuela very well. The relationship is extraordinary, we're taking out millions and millions of barrels of oil and I can't get the press to talk about it because they don't want to talk about it because they've never seen anything like it before. When they say to the victor belong the spoils, that's one of the greatest cases anyone's ever seen in history. We paid back the cost of our war many times over and you watch what's going to happen around, it's going to be a really good conclusion, it's going to, and it's going to happen, it's going to, I say it's going to be a little bit after the election. That may be not, maybe it's before the election. He's bragging about invading a country, stealing their resources, he claims the money paid for itself when Treasury Secretary Besson was under oath and he was asked, so where's the money? Besson opened up his book, "I'm not at liberty to tell you where the money is thus far." Well, where is it? You said it's paid for it, is it in the Treasury? I'm not at liberty to, you know what I mean, you're not at liberty to tell us where the money is, isn't it in the Cotari account? It's being audited, who's the auditor? I'm not at liberty to have you seen the audit. It hasn't started the audit, but I'm just going to say the word audit, but in the future there will be an audit. So where's the money? By the way, there has not been more production of oil and the oil processes of oil to, oil being refined since Donald Trump invaded the country and kidnapped Maduro and put in Maduro's number two as the leader. It's been about the same. Trump stole probably $13 billion, some maybe more. That's probably in a Cotari bank account that's like Trump's account. Not for we, the people, Trump alone. We don't know where this money is. And Besson was asked. And Besson was like, "I'm not allowed to say," but I showed you what his testimony was. And then Donald Trump says that the new one, the new one, because people know that tariffs aren't going to make us rich like you promise. So his new one is, if you stop trade with every country that we have a deficit with, it's about 50 plus countries. If you stop the trade, all trade, just shut it down. No more trading. That's how you get really rich by doing zero trade in 2026. This is his solution. Do no trade here. Play this clip. If we stop trading with every country that we have a deficit with, which is most of them, which would be very easy to do, would make at least $1.5 trillion a year. We do that because it's almost like a reflex. He is the stupidest person on the planet. And if you believe a word that he says, then I'm sorry, but you are too. He's lying about everything. The guy doesn't even know what a trade deficit is. And that's a problem, I would say, for the president of the United States. His concept of a trade deficit reminds me of what my wife calls girl, math. I didn't buy this. So that means I now have $100 to buy a dress. Now that means I have $100 to buy this product. And it's like, no, no, you don't, you don't. And that's kind of Trump's concept here. It's like, okay, so I didn't spend money on this, and groceries, but I bought this. Okay, but you don't have groceries. Now you don't have anything to eat. And so you're not going to be able to live. You're not going to have anything to do. Like you get things for trade, obviously. That's why we trade with countries because it's beneficial to Americans. And it's beneficial to companies in America who need to get a diverse series of parts from various countries in order to make their products. And what Trump is talking about right there is economic suicide. And that's now his threat against the federal reserve and against the kind of entire American economy he's been threatening. You know, you keep raising rates. I'm going to just cut off trade with everybody because that will solve the problem. No, it won't. That will send the United States into a depression. And I will use a Trump terminology here, the likes of which you have never seen. It would be an utter disaster. But I think the helpful thing about Donald Trump going through all those issues is he's kind of clearly laying out all the various things that he has been an utter failure on. He brings up the war. He brings up gas prices. He brings up trade. He brings up every issue possible. And it just reminds you, oh yeah, the guy failed at literally everything. And that's why if you just go with what Trump says being the opposite of reality, it's kind of an easy way to do analysis. And you're going to be right 99.99% of the time. So when Trump gets out there and he says. says all these things and he says that he's kept every promise and all all this stuff. You just have to know, okay, it's the opposite of reality. And people feel this sort of thing, right? People understand that they were not on the golden age. They see Donald Trump focused on all this garbage while everybody's suffering. They see him on the plane through the window with a big poster board that's set, or someone is apparently pitching him on demolishing the Kennedy Center or a post on demolishing the Kennedy Center to post on a shrewd social account. Like these aren't the things that Americans are concerned about right now. Americans are concerned about their lives, but Trump just keeps causing more chaos and more chaos. And quite frankly, when you look at what he's doing and you, if you think about like, how would I, if I were like an evil individual and adversary of the United States of America who was hellbent on destroying this country from within, I don't think you would do really anything differently than what Donald Trump is doing right now. He is showing step by step by step how to dismantle everything. And it's another reason why the midterms coming up are so vital. And that's why everybody needs to get out there and vote quite frankly because there needs to be some sort of check on his unfettered power. And these Republicans are such cowards, they refuse to do anything. They refuse to do anything. They refuse to work, you know, I'd fancy to guess that Congress has not been in session more days than they have been this past year. It's unbelievable what we're witnessing. And what we just heard Trump say by cutting off trade, right? Again, it shows perfectly the America first scam that Donald Trump has put over his followers as Brett shows a calendar of actually how many days it looks like Congress has worked this year. 15 days of legislative business in over four months, 15 days of legislative business in over four months, Jordy, just, just truly again, unbelievable when you see this like right in front of your face and numbers like that. But again, it shows you, Brett, when he's talking about cutting off trade, that America first scam that he's put over all of his mega loyalists and just like quite frankly, the Republican party in general at this point, America first for Donald Trump just means America all alone. Let me isolate ourselves from our allies. In fact, let me go after our allies. Let me isolate ourselves from the world by not conducting trade with them. Let me make up numbers 1.5 trillion. Look how smart I am by not doing trade with these countries. Look how much money we're going to have. We're going to be so rich. We're in the golden age actually. Aren't y'all so rich now? By the way, if those gas prices, if they have to go up even a little bit more, y'all be all right. You know why? Because we're in the golden age. If I say it enough times that we're in the golden age, you're going to believe it, right? And you're going to repeat it. It's so disgusting. And what frustrates me, too, is just like in general, we played four clips, five clips just like from this rally in North Carolina alone. There were quick clips. That was crazy. Like WTF, that was already just insane, and we didn't even get to have of them. And so how does corporate media coverage like cover this to me is like equally more depressing and upsetting and frustrating. There was just like an NBC headline that caught my eye as I was doing some research. It was like, Trump bashes Democrats, see, even my dog's pissed off. Trump bashes Democrats on crime while campaigning in North Carolina. It's like, that's what y'all took away from this. And by the way, I went ahead and read that article. There's no real fact checks in there. The fact check is from the opponents like staff, like seven paragraphs in of why that's BS. Crazy to me. How any sane network or news organization can look at what Donald Trump is doing up there and just continue to pretend that that's normal. That that's the president of the United States that this is what we have come to expect out of someone in that position. Disgusting. Ben. I want to take our first quick break of the show reminder. Our new book is called WTF America. You could pre-order right now, it officially arrives in bookstores and officially will get delivered October 20th as when it comes out, but pre-order it right now. 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There's something called the dot plot that the Fed uses to show you how they may be voting on future rate hikes or keeping rates the same or decreasing rates. Typically Kevin Warsh, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, was against these dot plots but we just got a dot plot out from this Federal Reserve Board and the dot plot shows at least one more interest rate hike that's going to take place this year, probably another 25 basis points but we will see ultimately what it is, possibly two more rate hikes but mostly people are saying they'll at least be one more but I should caution because if you looked at the dot plots from a few months back you would have expected or the beginning of the year, you would have expected there to be three interest rate cuts this year and so that's what mostly every economist and banker was believing that's what the Federal Reserve Board did. But rarely if ever was the economy so dramatically impacted by the person in the White House. Generally they have to react but they don't ultimately cause this like complete reversal of a trend the way Donald Trump did but Trump's tariffs against the world, trade wars against the world, catastrophic war in Iran, Trump's attack on the immigrant population which also was a big problem for labor and for working workers as well. This attack on our manufacturing base is attack on farmers overall, this created a situation where we're in very difficult economic times now some would say very catastrophic economic that's how most Americans see it. I'm not being hyperbolic when we talk about the lowest consumer confidence in history. I didn't make that chart. It's the University of Michigan consumer confidence report that goes back half a century. And since they started, this is the worst consumer confidence that there is right now. Inflation is surging. And so there was a 12 to zero vote. As unanimous, all board members of the Federal Reserve said rate hike. So it wasn't just, you know, this person or that person, there were Trump picks, George W. Bush picks, Biden picks, people who are all on this board, 12, nothing, they all voted to hike the rates. And then you had Kevin Warsh. Again, Donald Trump's pick to be the chairman of the Federal Reserve. He went out there and he said, high inflation. This is what our mandate is at the Fed. And when we see inflation elevated, we act. And there is elevated inflation caused by geopolitical stability. Say what you want. We have, well, there could be a lot of criticisms for Kevin Warsh and they're all fair. But I believe he actually, you know, call it out when it happens. I think he acted responsible. I'm not rooting for rate hikes. Okay. But given the data, he made the right decision. And afterwards, he said basically, mostly the right things because inflation is high because of geopolitical instability, they take the actions that they can control. He goes, I can't deal with trade policy. I don't deal with this. We deal with what the Fed deals with our mandate. And this is why we acted unanimously like this. It is important to note, though, that Kevin Warsh's background, he was a member of the Federal Reserve many, many years ago. He's not that old of a guy. But he was there, you know, when he was very, when he was much younger, but he was there. And he had a reputation as being called an interest rate hawk. So his background was someone who was more inclined to aggressively raise interest rates to try to control inflation. That was his reputation. Ironically Jerome Powell, who was the prior chairman of the Federal Reserve, who Trump picked during Trump's first term, Trump picked Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell, again, very significant credibility as an economist, normal kind of well researched kind of the right person. But his background was what was called an interest rate dove. And he was someone who believed that you can spur growth and bring down inflation by interest rate cuts more than doing interest rate hikes to reign in inflation. So you had people on the opposite ends of the spectrum. Powell was an interest rate cutter. Warsh was an interest rate increase or hiker. And that's just a fascinating dynamic because Trump was livid at Powell for not lowering interest rates. And he called Powell too late Powell. And Trump was like, who would ever appoint this idiot? You appointed him in the first term. Biden just extended his term under Biden. We saw the rate increases for a little bit of that time because of Donald Trump's catastrophic handling of COVID. And so we saw everything that had to be done to bring the economy back to an area where there could be growth again and try to get inflation under control. That succeeded as Biden gave the baton to Trump. Inflation was down to three percent. And it was heading towards two percent. All of the fed board, all of them again unanimously felt it was heading in the right direction. And then Donald Trump demanded that Powell do the cuts. And Trump was calling him too late Powell, too late Powell. Trump had criminal prosecutions initiated against Powell. Remember that because he said Powell was hurting him by keeping the rates where they were. Even not not not lowering it. And Trump said lower it. So Trump came up with some phony pretext about the federal reserve building is over budget. Yeah. To all people, Donald Trump is the one saying that. And that's why he was criminally prosecuting Powell. And Powell had to quash a subpoena. Then Powell's term ended. Powell's actually stayed on the board right now. And you had Kevin Warsh appointed. And lots of people, including us, like that's an interesting pick as Kevin Warsh as a hawk. He's the guy who's known to raise it. So as Kevin Warsh, gonna go against his entire career, it was just something we were all observing. And I think we were transparent in our reporting to guide you through that dynamic right there. Kevin Warsh testified in front of Congress a few months back where he actually had a pretty decent performance. And he said, yeah, I mean, we're going to follow our mandate. But we all wanted to see is that what he was actually going to do. But ultimately the guy that Donald Trump picked to lower interest rates because the other guy who was the chairman of the federal reserve was keeping it the same. And Trump wanted that guy criminally prosecuted. He brings in Warsh, the hawk, and what does Warsh do, raises interest rates with the full board unanimously voted to do so. Then Warsh held a press conference where Warsh was asked, so what are you going to say to Trump? Like, how do you now message this to Donald Trump? Because he obviously brought you here to try to force the board to lower it. That's why he was going after Powell. Watch what Warsh says in response here. This was Warsh at the press conference. Let's play. I have to ask, what is your message here to President Trump, who has repeatedly called to cut interest rates, not raise them? I've got nothing for you on a discussion with the president. So, but I won't make that count as your question. Then you had Trump's top economic advisor, Peter Navarro, rushed to the ban and show. Let's take a look at what went down there here. Play this clip. Why do you think I'm surprised? I was not a Warsh guy. I'm not a Warsh guy. I see him not as mega. I see him. Let's call him Mara or Masa. Like, make recessions great again. You know, it's like, or makes that inflation great again. I just, look, he stole himself and now he's selling us out. I think it's pretty much as simple as that. And I don't know, here's what I don't know. I don't know whether it's a gap in his training or whether he's just one of them. And this is political. I fear it's political. Brett, you don't know much of anything, Peter Navarro. That's pretty stunning to hear from Donald Trump's own economic advisor, Peter Navarro, that he would say that about Trump's appointee, I will say. And the thing you want to know about Peter Navarro is something that I've said on the show quite a bit. Peter Navarro has quite literally, I think, been wrong about everything his entire life. The fact that this guy has any credibility whatsoever, he doesn't. But the fact that people treat this guy like he's a serious human being who deserves a title of economic advisor and deserves to be called on to shows, to be asked questions or to write op-eds for newspapers, like the Wall Street Journal, which is supposed to be a prestigious paper. But let's see what Peter Navarro said in the Wall Street Journal just a few months ago. Let's see his incredible big brain prediction about the Iran War. Let me pull it up. Here's Peter Navarro, March 12, 2026. Are you ready for this prediction? Brothers and minus mighty? Iran War will lower energy prices. The risk of regime violence has long been baked into the global price of oil and gas and everything else. The Iran War is going to lower prices, lower energy prices. And the guy is a complete fool. The guy is a complete idiot. And I have to say, respect for wars for not going along with Donald Trump on this. I think his actions in not being the lone vote, like a 11 to 1 vote in the Fed, I think that actually probably really helped actually come some of the nerves people had about the rate hikes because people were watching and the investors were watching to see, is this guy a serious human being? Or is he going to fold into whatever Donald Trump wants him to be? Because that Fed position, it's independent for a reason. It's independent because the entire global financial system relies on the decisions of that board. It affects so much. And so if you see the chair of the board acting in a way that is irresponsible, that is untrustworthy, then you lose the trust of the entire system and the entire system quite frankly can collapse. And so thankfully for now, Kevin Warsh has at least retained his credibility on this issue because if he went and did what Donald Trump wants to do and if we didn't have this independence of the Fed and Donald Trump went in there and he said interest rates should be 1%. So I hear by decree like Jordy, I declare bankruptcy, I declare interest rates 1%. If Donald Trump did that, you know what happens? The dollar gets super weak, imports gets super expensive. You might have a short term jolt to the economy where the stock market rises and people get this sugar high and then everything freaking collapse. And inflation, you think inflation's bad now, you will be dreaming of the inflation we have right now if Donald Trump got his way. But that's why he has a history of bankrupting everything because he can't make the right decisions. He's physically incapable of making the right decisions. And what he does when he's in a bind is he just does this doom spiral. And when you doom spiral, you end up doomed. And that's what's happening right now. Thankfully, there are still a few things blocking him from completely throwing everything in this country into the trash. But we are hanging by a threat here. Can I go tinfoil had Jordy just for a quick second here. Something to me is just I'm holding reservations here. Something's not passing the sniff test for me right away. And part of it actually came in Navarro's response on Bannon over there where he said something along the lines of you know maybe Warsh needs more training. It's such a weird way for him to phrase that. More training. There's like what do you need to sit him in front of the TV and have him watch more Trump rallies for three hours and then send him back out there there's there's an overarching relationship here that I just I don't feel comfortable about. But we'll kind of see where things continue to you know head out there Ben. What do you think you think you think you think everything is simpatic over here you think there's a little bit more that we have to kind of you know wait and see approach. I don't think that it's simpatico I think you always have to wait and see there's always scheming with the Trump regime. I mean Kevin Warsh sold himself as somebody who would be the opposite of what he was his entire career if you go back and you say well why did Trump pick this guy it makes no sense Ben didn't Trump know the guy was you know a fed hawk well didn't you know that JD Vance was out there saying that I'm a never Trump guy and that he's like Hitler and you know that's what JD Vance said right but JD Vance ended up doing the stick of I'm you know mag of this mag of that you know I never said I was gay in high school when I said this was my grandma I never said that I was Appalachia guy this that and the other um this ultra mega extremist that's who I really am look you know this eyeliner is not eyeliner it's toughness look at me I'm strong you know JD Vance did that stick and that worked on Trump and you know Warsh did you know I think Trump thinks that Warsh is an attractive I mean I'm not I'm not I think that Warsh it's a crazy analysis and you'll be like Ben what are you talking about this is how Trump no it's a heads up it's a Warsh essential casting he's a handsome guy he looks the part he knows how to play into Donald Trump's thing he said he would be doing the cuts I think if he's able to he'll try to do it I think though his view of it is is that you know it was so overwhelmingly baked in that this was going to happen that if it wasn't unanimous anyone anybody who broke would not have any credibility ever again so I think his view of it is as look inflation I can't not do the interest rate hikes right now so we have to do it we're going to have to do one more the next one is going to be I believe unanimous as well and then I think what his hope is is change you know and this is what I think they're messaging behind the scenes is you got to find a way out of this war you got to find the solution you got to figure this out you know and then we'll work for you we'll try to get it down but like we can't do it right now no matter what you want us to do it'll undermine you so I think those are the conversations taking place but I think Trump is attracted to him as a man I do I think that we've seen that before with Trump and I think that plays into it and the guy essential casting for what Trump perceives as that role and so there's a lot of factors that begin into play it's just so incredibly sick though that you know reflecting back on how you started the segment that Donald Trump was willing to criminally prosecute and throw an individual in jail in Jerome Powell because he wouldn't do what he said because he wouldn't break the independence of the Fed and lower rates artificially in order to sue Donald Trump's ego and do what he wants and now his own guy is in there and his own guy also not only kept rates steady like like like Powell did but actually had to hike rates and it just goes throughout this entire Trump regime I mean that's really the makings of an authoritarian tinpot dictatorship what do you see when you see a guy like Trump threatening people with prison time and not only threatening it and making a wacky truth social post and people saying oh but Donald he just says things you know he doesn't actually do think no sicking the department of justice the once trusted department of justice and career officials and his lackeys who he put in there and having them go after career individuals in the United States federal government and go after American citizens in some cases like American sporting heroes like the Olympian who was near the reflecting pool who they tried to throw in jail going after people like James Comey it's really really really a bad situation when you have the president in the United States willing to use the power of the United States government to go after people forward ever petty grievance yes and and it's obviously intentional and we all know that too is because he wants like Powell for example to quit to put his head in the sand to back away slowly to just you know give up hope and just you know hope okay maybe if I just stop maybe if I just go away Trump will leave me alone but to Powell's credit you know I think he's hung in there and it's been at least refreshing to see another you know someone else kind of stand up to Trump I'm not just gonna completely go away and fade into the sunset here Donnie you know there's going to be some overarching oversight as we go forward here and that to me bred to how strong he went after Powell versus now the reaction with Wash when we've now seen the actual the physical raise there almost hasn't been any you know like if if you blame everyone else he was like oh he's on a board with a bunch of wackos and the thing that Trump says and the thing that Trump says also is once again his psychological projection he goes uh all those other people were just put on the board for political reasons doing the political fittings of their masters unlike Mike I who should be doing what I tell him it's like he realized you just contradicted yourself in one sentence well because he's again the projection there is also his boards like the Kennedy Center board which are all of his handpicked puppets because he does that he assumes that's how all boards operate that they're all fake every boards a fake board because he runs fake boards like that's what he does we'll talk about that when we come back also there's also you know you've got to remember how basic and kind of caveman and lunatic kind of Trump is right he also doesn't like the way that Powell looks it's like a professor he looks smart like Trump looked at the guy and just doesn't like the guy's existence and so part of it also for Donald Trump is like torturing the guy and and and Trump feels differently also about his guy you know the guy who he thinks is good like it's a weird dynamic and I almost sound like I'm crazy for saying that but that's part of Trump's deranged and diminished but I know I said but I think you're completely right and let me just interject one more time I think it's something to do with the fact that he's an academic right this is the same reason why he went after Fauci that truly intimidates Donald Trump is intellectually Donald Trump can't meet on that level so what does he have to do he's got a threatened he's got a name call he's got to do all this stuff the dumb jocks do that Donald Trump used to do in high school and he's gone away with because of his daddy's lawyers and his money and all of that all of his entire life that's what we're saying but here's but you're going to me even refine that their journey Trump wasn't the Trump also well Trump was not accepted in any event in his life right the jocks didn't want to be with him and so Trump thought like like just think about it Trump believes that locker room talk is talking about grabbing women by their genitals and sexually assaulting them because you get away with it when you're rich isn't that what we're talking about in the locker rooms you know I I did an interview with Colin Kaepernick you know and you should go watch it and you could ask what happens in in locker rooms at high level sports and it's not that okay you know and it's serious business and it's behaving like leaders and running teams and organizing things you're going to watch the interview I did with Colin Kaepernick like Trump wasn't accepted into that he like like that's the lock that's locker room talk it isn't right and then and then the academics and that you know they rejected him and so that's why he's like my uncle MIT you know and so you have to think about he's been the outcast his whole life because he's you know a deranged lunatic and he's seeking vengeance on everybody right now in ways that are kind of profoundly kind of crazy and that's part of all of this his whole life has been about revenge and they're unfair and I'm unfair and everything's unfair and this is this that and everything's treating me this way and it's like we'll talk about this in the next break too we'll talk about the Kennedy Center he just wants desperately to have his name with Kennedy right I need to engrave it I need to be he wants to be in that he wants to be the Putin she thinks he wants to be in that club and they don't want him in that club the crazy thing is that the U.S. had the club that lots of people wanted to be and we created the post-World War II architecture and Donald Trump never thought that first off Trump thought that that was never something he could be a part of he was intimidated by that he thought the other people would embrace him in his club they don't want him in his club and so it's just all of this rage all at once and that's how the whole world that's why it's like oh they're laughing at you they're laughing at you he's talking about himself that everybody looked at him his whole life this way so I think that's an important framework right let's take our last quick break of the show check out the Colin Kaepernick interview by the way um 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Shout out to our sponsors, y'all links in description about the YouTube and the audio. Use the links. Use the codes. If there's that exit survey, let them know we sent you Benji before I toss it back over to you. Everyone here knows that I'm a big fan of giving folks their flowers while you can. So Ben, I do want to say Ben's Colin Kaepernick interview. I know you're not supposed to choose favorite interviews, especially as someone who co-founded the network. It is my favorite interview that we've ever done here on the network. I've listened to it now three, three and a half times. It is so worth the listen. If you haven't done it, don't do it right now because you're watching us and listening to us. Don't do it this way. When you're done with this, give that interview a listen. It's like an hour long, it's truly just the insight and just the conversation Ben, I just found like so thoughtful and just really loved it, big bro. Yeah, you know, I'm known Colin now for nine years, eight years, you know, a really long period of time and, you know, we've been, it's really time. One of the fascinating things to me of the interview was how many people said I had no idea that you were his lawyer, I had no idea what you did before Midas or your friends with Colin. I like that actually really fascinating to me because we have a lot of the stairs who go, you know, back to the beginning and I've heard us tell, you know, these stories a lot and we've got a lot of folks who are joining us every single day and so I think it was cool also for folks to get reminded that you didn't kind of just materialize one day. Hey, I'm Ben on YouTube. Exactly. I'm Ben. And I'm also inevitably since I'm always in the chat, I always see someone say, are these guys brothers? Love that. I mean, welcome, welcome, no shade, you asked all the questions, yeah, we're brothers. Brett and I are not twins. That's been, that's, that's come up quite a bit lately. So just want to put that out there. But we're brothers. You know, Prime Minister Karney was basically, basically the same role as Powell and Kevin Warsh in Canada, right? He was the chairman of their, basically their bank of cash. He was one of the basically the big central bankers, you know, over there. And then Bank of England, he was like their big central banker over there, Canada during the Great Recession in the UK during Brexit. And so this is someone who was tested during great times of crises. So he had a coalition build and they, those were times where the recessions could have turned into depressions and the Brexit break, which is still, I think, had very negative consequences in my opinion, could have even been much worse, but for him being brought in to fix things. And so Canada elected someone who is of incredible intellect, incredible empathy and someone who's reflective with all these life experiences, a true builder, a coalition builder, and the U.S. elected a bank ruptor, a deal breaker, and a predator, and so you have such a contrast and, you know, thinking about chess moves, you know, to think about Canada fortifying itself and building this resilience by bringing in Karney and then Karney bringing resilience in a rapidly changing global order against the chaos unleashed by the U.S. in ripping apart its own architecture, right? The U.S. created the post-World War II architecture where all of these countries were dependent on the U.S. and the U.S. made a lot of money building that dependency, providing protection, and providing a framework for financial structures, security structures, and whether you like that structure or don't like that structure, I think undeniably that was the structure and that structure in the rules-based order, the rules were created by the United States, have to World War II, and those rules frequently benefited the United States, and Trump viewed that as we're being taken advantage of when it's kind of the opposite, you know, was the case, and now you see a rapidly changing order, and so you'll have the bricks alliance being built up, we talked about the New Delhi-Brick summit, Iran playing a prominent role in that summit as well, you know, with Brazil and Russia and China and India and South Africa and all these other countries as well. Today in the United Nations Security Council, you had Russia and China block a U.S.-led effort to impose international sanctions and sanctions monitoring on Iran, and so it was a big deal that you had, this existed before at the U.N. Security Council, and this was blocked by Russia and China earlier today. You had Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, meeting with foreign minister, Iraqi in Beijing, before Xi Jinping was set to meet with Donald Trump next week, to prepare and coordinate there. We've learned, I don't think we needed this report from CNN, but nonetheless CNN reported on it, and it gave some new data, gave some of the names of the satellites, but that Russian satellites were providing Iran-ma-targeting of U.S. bases in the region, I mean, but like we all see that satellite footage, it wasn't kind of rocket science, and Russia's pretty much outright saying, "Yeah, we're allied," and China's pretty much outright saying, "Yeah, we're allied," and Iran's saying, "We're allied," and meanwhile, you have Treasury Secretary Bessent like doing tip lines. If you've found anybody, we're going to, who may be helping Iran, please let us know, and we will take action against them. As I said, I think on the show I did earlier today, it's like, "We're going to punish you so much. She, we're going to throw you a five-course dinner. We're going to treat you with the most lavish state dinner, Donald Trump. That's how we're going to tell you that we're angry with you." It's like, "Okay, I mean, you know, you have Bessent just looks like an utter fool. He couldn't even answer the basic questions of where some of the money was going from, but as well as I know earlier, which bank account, I mean, that guy looks like a total." But then he is the house. I'm the house. I wrote it in the financial times. My op-ed announcing economic deed, then I said the financial times is a tool of China, and it's far. Okay, well, you, you rose. I saw some of these right-wing accounts online. They were like, "Oh, that line was so badass. What a badass. Mike drop Bess. I'm like the guy's an idiot. Like, like, what are you doing? Haven't you learned the lesson of people who have too much hubris because I feel like we're all watching like some poetry right now, play out before us?" Yeah, it's like a hit-a-piss. It's frickin' homer, you know? It's like, "Asop's fable. Like, you know, it's Thucydides. Try it." You know, it's like, it sucks with the animals' pants, but it's apparently under Cache Patel's view. You know, did you see that? I thought there was that chart, like, the spectrum of like dogs. So good. Yeah, and it was like Kristino, Zero, Cache Patel, Ten of their view of dogs. And so I'd even, but there's even videos today. I mean, like, you know, one of our researchers was able to identify at Trump's Virginia Golf Club. They had like all these kids that were in this swimming pool, shallow pool, kitty pool area. And at Trump's swimming pool, they released like hundreds, maybe thousands of little goldfish, and they put it in the pool in the chlorinated water. And then they had the little kids like, it was running around, getting the fish, killing the fish. The whole scene, like, incredibly creepy. And it's like, "Are you aliens? Like, you just love seeing animals get tortured? Why are you putting the little fish in the chlorinated water? Why are you having the little kids try to hunt for the fish in the water? Why is that even a game? I don't know if you're you're gonna have. them search for things. Why don't you put marbles in the water or something? Or why don't you put, you know, I don't know pennies in the water or something? Why goldfish? Why does everything have to be a torture ritual? Which adult part of the Trump Epstein class like thought about this idea to begin with? I don't know. It's just, in my opinion, the whole thing is just absolutely deranged and crazy. In any event, you have the US chaos and disorder. Meanwhile, you have Prime Minister Karnie. He's there speaking in the European Union Parliament after the state of the union previously given. Yeah, that's it right there. I mean, what are they doing right there? The whole scene is gross. You can take it off. I don't want to look at it anymore. It's disgusting. It's disgusting. It grossed me out. Like, what are they doing right there, right? The whole scene is squirtess. Prime Minister Karnie, on the other hand, I mean, this is serious times, man, right? These, this is serious stuff happening in the world right now. And I've just over and over again, it's like we are not behaving as a serious nation. We're not even talking about the layers and levels of complexity and intrigue. We're not even behaving as a modicum as a serious nation. At the floor, we should be a serious nation. And then we should go up from there in terms of levels to this, right? US used to lead the global architecture. Now, we're not even meeting the bear minimum threshold of pass. We're below the floor. We're not serious. We're clownish. We're jokes. And we're worse than that. We're dangerous. That's what Secretary of State, former Secretary of St. Hillary Clinton said. We're dangerous. We're not serious. And we're a menace. We go around and we do menacing dangerous things. By the way, like Donald Trump his whole life. Remember the conversation of he wanted to be in this locker room. Like, yeah, get out. He wanted to be in that group. Get out. That's why he brags about his uncle being at MIT or that's why he needs to steal the valor of this group or that group. He was the outcast. The irony is that you have best in saying economic outcast with Iran. Iran's being embraced more than ever in this newly established global world order by a group of nations that Donald Trump wishes he was allied with. That's one of the crazy things about all of us. And I digress. I digress. I digress. Prime Minister Karni speaking at the European Union parliament, talking about how we're not fair-weather allies in Canada. Let's do what he had to say. Let's play it. We are not fair-weather allies. We do not pursue zero sum deals. Our commitment to the rule of law and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom and democracy share the same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication. We hold common values for which we have always thought and in whose defense we must always remain vigilant. We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but a means to adjust society. We are committed. We are committed stewards of our natural heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows when it's shared these values. This is a sharing of choice, not coincidence. And he goes on and discusses more about sovereignty about uniting, about all of these things. I just tell the people of Canada, I'm very jealous of you guys. Very jealous of you guys made an incredibly good decision. And I wake up every morning and I see stuff like that. And I watch what we're dealing with here at home in the US. And it's just, I'm happy for you guys. But obviously very sad for what's going on here. And you know, Trump confirmed, remember Trump tried to deny the other day when he went out there. You know, when the trade deal, so to speak, fell apart with Canada, what did Canada say? They said that the United States of America was trying to remove our sovereignty. They were trying to say who we could trade with, who we can't trade with. They were trying to say what language we could speak. What language we can't speak. And this was kind of all confirmed when Donald Trump was speaking about this new relationship that's forming right now, or this strength and relationship between Canada and the European Union. When what did Donald Trump do? He threatened both parties over this new agreement. He was asked about it yesterday while he was on the tarmac in North Carolina. And Donald Trump made some sort of comment like, well, you know, if they're doing this, you know, if they're doing this a bad faith, or if they're doing this with bad intentions, then I might have to punish them with more tariffs. If they're doing this with good intentions, that's another story. But I might have to punish them for doing this. Once again, that's confirming exactly. And not that we needed confirmation that Canada was telling the truth in the situation. And Donald Trump and all the crazy psychotic lunatics in the Trump regime were lying. But it's further confirmation that he's saying that in the open, you don't have sovereignty. We don't want you to have sovereignty. You can't enter into trade agreements or have relationships of your own unless you have the explicit approval of me, Donald Trump. Yeah, show you Professor Sachs, renowned professor. Here's what he has to say. When I heard him say this, I was like, this sounds like a like a ben rant right here. Listen to what he has to say. Let's play it. I think we should understand we have a cabinet of 35 people. Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one. There's one bachelor's degree, one bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. No other training at all on technical issues. And not one single research PhD degree in the cabinet as opposed to China where it's half the cabinet basically is science and technology and research PhDs. In other words, we're led by grifters and fools. Sorry, straight out. And they're incompetent. And they're arrogant. And they don't even know how to ask a question. He's got to be a minus fee. I've heard you make exact rant before. He's got been on that rant before. I mean, he's exactly right though. Again, and it goes back to kind of, I guess, like the central theme of this episode. And it's Donald Trump's like allergy to academics. Like he, he Donald Trump would much rather put people around him. That would be yes men and women, these stooges, these mega stooges that will go along with whatever he wants. And also who Trump just thinks like, like fits the bill. Like I don't know, I'm thinking that it's an allergy. I'll throw it back to you there. But I think it's an allergy just to academics. It's all these different groups of people who are trying to be thoughtful or team work or work together. Trump just views the whole world going back to what Karnie says, as the zero sum game where he wants to steal and take and destroy. And he thinks that he's not in the club with all the secret people who are doing all the destroying. And he really wants to be the leader of that and be with that crew of people. And he keeps trying to find all these people and everybody's repulsed by him. And so he gets deeper and deeper into this. And so this whole facade, this whole crazy thing has just become this kind of weapon of mass destruction. You know, he is the WMD that now is here just taking his life vengeance out on everybody. His own supporters. I mean, you know, the people who voted for him. I mean, he's screwing them more than just about anybody. But all Americans are being screwed right here. I mean, we all are experiencing the rising price of gas and diesel. So a JP Morgan recently published our baseline analysis. We don't have a baseline anymore when it comes to oil. We assume that there were certain red lines that just Donald Trump wouldn't cross because it would cause economic catastrophe. And he's crossed them. And so we don't really know what to say anymore. This goes to show you remember even though the arrogance of like Jamie Dimon, you know, well, I think, oh, I think, oh, it's like, okay, well, guess what? Guess where this has taken us right now. You know, we have to recognize we have a psycho, Jordan. I mean, you know, this we have a psychotic lunatic in this guys. We can't, you show that NBC headline, you know, others want to talk about this podcast to that podcast. They don't have the stupidest debates. Most American people are like, yo, we are led by a literal psychotic human, or who even knows if he's you guys a lunatic like this is a real dimension. CNN is focused on the important stuff today from what I heard when I got my notes from the team. I heard they were laser focused on Hassan Piker. I don't know if I'm gonna make sure that they're focused on the important stuff. We have like the like today alone also like the thing is it's Trump has infected every aspect of government and government is of course supposed to work for you and it often doesn't, but it's often not like a purposefully destructive force that's working against the actual stated goals of the kind of entities that people are assigned to lead when you have somebody running the Department of Education whose goal is to destroy education when you have somebody running health whose goal is to destroy health and make you sicker. And every day we're getting new reports about food contamination and oh yes everyone's getting diarrhea now because not things tested and measles is raging back and everyone has measles and today aren't them. Of course, talking about RFK Jr. and plenty of other folks in this administration, this regime, I should say. But even today, you know, RFK was out there and one of the comments he made, he was like, the unvaccinated kids, you know, who died from measles, sure, they get all the headlines. So that's what the media wants to focus on. But you know what, they don't want to focus on, they never talk about the real problems, the vaccine injured. They should really focus on the vaccine injured, not those, not those poor, you know, unvaccinated kids who died. Why are they focusing all their attention on that? You know what I'm going to look into today? Also, you know what we need to focus our health infrastructure on? We need to look at chem, I'm looking into chem trails. I got to look into chem trails. That is what I need to see. When I look in the sky, I see lines and I don't know what they are. People say they're coming from planes, but I think it's a secret government conspiracy from your own government. What, what, what are you talking about? They're real issues right now. They're children dying because they're unvaccinated. You are encouraging this bad behavior and you are using your pedestal, your powerful role as the leader of the nation's health and it pains me to say that to spread disinformation that literally kills people. That is a shame and the blood of every child who dies, who is unvaccinated, particularly when you are pushing all of this garbage. The blood is on the hands of RFK Jr. The blood is on the hands of Donald Trump and all of these enablers around and remember this, none of this happens without enablers around him. When you see that picture on the plane yesterday or on marine one yesterday of Donald Trump and you saw through the window and he's holding that big placard up that says Kennedy Center demolition or Kennedy Center demolished or whatever. He was handed that by somebody, somebody who had to mock it up whether they used AI or whether they used Photoshop or whatever. They had to mock up this ridiculous graphic printed out on a giant poster board because this is how they present things to him. Hand to Donald Trump to approve or reject from posting on his truth social account. Then a Natalie Harp or whomever posted on his truth social account and this is how the government is operating right now. You saw the picture then after on marine one of what's the Bill Pulty, the guy who Trump put in charge of housing and then Freddie and Fanny and he's walking out with this giant poster board that just showed Trump about demolishing the Kennedy Center and then that's the same guy who was pitching 50-year mortgages to Donald Trump as a means to try to make home ownership easier as interest rates are spiking and everybody is suffering and everything is getting more expensive. It's the problem when you infect every aspect of the government. It's not just the government that gets sick. It's the people who get sick and that's an issue and unfortunately we need to act right now. It's very important. We have midterms coming up and it's important because we can't let this be terminal, right? We're sick. It's a sick country. We have to admit we're a deeply, deeply sick country right now with a whole lot of issues. But I don't think we've reached that terminal phase yet and there are these small moments in history where people could rise up and people could push back and people could say, "I'm done with this crap. I'm going to at least do as little like the bare minimum of what I need to do right now to stop this sickness." And then hopefully, from probably not, if we're right now, probably not a couple of years from now, probably not even a few years from that, we will work to get and bring back a healthier country that actually works for the people. Covered a lot in this episode. We could keep on going, but I think right now we'll just say, we're grateful for you. We feel more confident in ever heading into the midterms that the American people are starting to feel like, you know what, we can fight back. We're in this together. I think people are identifying the source of all of this in the Oval Office. Let me give you a couple data points too as Ben Stockett here. Ashley Henson, Iowa, you know, running for run for office. But was her her her big announcement yesterday, her big ad that she released. I'm willing to work across the aisle with Democrats to get things done. That's the kind of language you only hear from Democrats normally for a Republican to be putting that in an ad a few weeks before the midterms, shows that they know which way the wind is blowing. It's the representative of Maria Salazar in Florida, who I think Ben showed these clips for right off the show again. But you know, right after the 2024 election, the day after she goes Donald Trump, he's only going to go after the bad immigrants. All my issues, like over 200,000, I think undocumented immigrants in her district. And so this is a big issue that her constituents really care about. She gets a lot of pressure from because she lives around a lot of these folks. And she goes, well, I'm not worried about them when she was at this. She's only going to go after the bad ones, the criminals, the trendy aragua, the this, the that, and flash forward to today, she releases an ad against Donald Trump, not against her midterm opponents, not against the Democrats. She releases her own ad against Donald Trump saying, Mr. Trump, you've gone too far with this immigration thing. This is not okay. Listen, it's in my opinion, all performative BS, right? But it shows you one thing. It shows you that even they know the tightest turning and all their internal data is telling them what's coming for them in just a few weeks from now. And I can't believe it really just kind of a few weeks away at this point is going to be a disaster. And they are trying to stop what's kind of impending doom for them right now. So read the signs. Keep looking for all these indicators and never take any of that for granted in any way. You know, always make sure that you're doing your small part and are doing whatever you can to promote democracy and to try to stop this chaos. Appreciate you all so much. Midas mighty. We're grateful for you. We dedicate our book to you, by the way, that WTF America is dedicated to you. We harnessed and channeled our experiences here with you at People Powered Movement. By the way, go ahead and watch and listen to my interview with Kaepernick. We learned from the People Powered Movement that we saw then we built it. We built this with you. 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